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The ILS course correction that drew them below the runway just before midnight

A turboprop drifts off the ILS on a foggy Maine night; can the crew correct course and make the runway before they sink into the trees?The ILS course correction that drew them below the runway just before midnightIn this episode, we follow Flight 1808’s final approach to Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport and the chain of routine decisions that converged on a single eight-second descent. The story traces the flight path, weather, and cockpit conditions that left no audio or flight-data record - and asks how such a routine correction could go so wrong.Person: Samantha SmithAircraft: Beechcraft…

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